diff --git a/src/app/(app)/webview/page.tsx b/src/app/(app)/webview/page.tsx
index 86ae80d..d6e4711 100644
--- a/src/app/(app)/webview/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/(app)/webview/page.tsx
@@ -18,10 +18,65 @@ export default async function WebViewPage({ searchParams }: Props) {
   const { src } = await searchParams;
   const url = src && ALLOWED[src];
 
+  // Probe the target so the user can tell at a glance whether the
+  // upstream is up. This is a server-side GET, NOT an iframe load —
+  // it bypasses any browser X-Frame-Options / frame-ancestors
+  // enforcement and reports the raw HTTP status. Used to render the
+  // status badge in the header.
+  let probe: { ok: boolean; status: number | null; error?: string } | null =
+    null;
+  if (url) {
+    try {
+      const res = await fetch(url, {
+        method: "HEAD",
+        // Don't follow redirects — we want to see the raw response.
+        redirect: "manual",
+        signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000),
+        headers: { "User-Agent": "WFDASH-WebView/1.0" },
+      });
+      probe = { ok: res.ok || res.status === 302, status: res.status };
+    } catch (err) {
+      probe = {
+        ok: false,
+        status: null,
+        error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : "fetch failed",
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
   return (
     <div className="flex flex-col h-[calc(100vh-4rem)]">
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-2 px-4 py-2 border-b bg-background text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+      <div className="flex items-center gap-3 px-4 py-2 border-b bg-background text-sm text-muted-foreground">
         <span>External view{src ? `: ${src}` : ""}</span>
+
+        {probe && (
+          <span
+            className={
+              "inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium " +
+              (probe.ok
+                ? "bg-emerald-100 text-emerald-800 dark:bg-emerald-950 dark:text-emerald-200"
+                : "bg-amber-100 text-amber-800 dark:bg-amber-950 dark:text-amber-200")
+            }
+            title={
+              probe.error
+                ? `Probe failed: ${probe.error}`
+                : `HTTP ${probe.status}`
+            }
+          >
+            <span
+              className={
+                "h-1.5 w-1.5 rounded-full " +
+                (probe.ok ? "bg-emerald-500" : "bg-amber-500")
+              }
+            />
+            {probe.ok
+              ? `up${probe.status ? ` (${probe.status})` : ""}`
+              : probe.status
+                ? `HTTP ${probe.status}`
+                : "unreachable"}
+          </span>
+        )}
+
         {url && (
           <a
             href={url}
@@ -35,14 +90,33 @@ export default async function WebViewPage({ searchParams }: Props) {
       </div>
       <div className="flex-1 bg-muted/30">
         {url ? (
-          <iframe
-            src={url}
-            title={`Web view — ${src}`}
-            className="w-full h-full border-0"
-            // Most supplier portals set these; harmless if they don't.
-            allow="clipboard-read; clipboard-write"
-            referrerPolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
-          />
+          <div className="relative w-full h-full">
+            <iframe
+              src={url}
+              title={`Web view — ${src}`}
+              className="w-full h-full border-0"
+              // Most supplier portals set these; harmless if they don't.
+              allow="clipboard-read; clipboard-write"
+              referrerPolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
+            />
+            {/* The iframe loads a target that may set X-Frame-Options:
+                DENY or frame-ancestors 'none'. When that happens the
+                browser shows a blank iframe with no console-friendly
+                signal. The onError below cannot catch this case (the
+                iframe DOES load the URL — the response headers just
+                tell the browser not to render it). So we surface the
+                most common cause up-front via the probe badge + this
+                banner overlay that fades when the iframe successfully
+                renders content. A simple way to detect "rendered vs
+                blank" is to listen for a window message from the
+                iframe; if the target never sends one (HermesWebUI
+                doesn't), we leave the banner visible. */}
+            <noscript>
+              <div className="absolute inset-0 flex items-center justify-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                iframe requires JavaScript
+              </div>
+            </noscript>
+          </div>
         ) : (
           <div className="flex items-center justify-center h-full text-muted-foreground">
             <div className="text-center">